Accenture launches Microsoft AI engineering practice to scale enterprise solutions

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Accenture Launches Microsoft Forward Deployed Engineering Practice to Help Organizations Scale AI Across the Enterprise

March 18, 2026 7:59 AM EDT

AI-first, industry-aligned practice to accelerate frontier transformation powered by Microsoft AI

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is collaborating with Microsoft to launch a forward deployed engineering (FDE) practice, designed to help organizations more rapidly design, build, and operationalize AI across the enterprise.

Most enterprise AI initiatives stall not for lack of technology, but for lack of the right engineering expertise applied in the right place. Through the new practice, Accenture and Microsoft will bring together thousands of AI-skilled engineers to work directly with clientspairing Microsoft's frontier AI... More